Tag: Boghall & Bathgate

Andrew Pitkeathly: a great piper and a great person

Andrew Pitkeathly: a great piper and a great person

Features

By MARK MacKENZIE Graham Adams’ recent article on Bagpipe.news brought back to me my own memories of Andrew Pitkeathly. As Graham mentioned in his piece, I stayed in Scotland for 12 months from November 1989 to November 1990 and received tuition from Andrew during that time. Graham was my first […]

Alisdair McLaren: Ten years after

Alisdair McLaren: Ten years after

Blog, Features

It’s been a quite a decade. I took over as Director of the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland (NYPBoS) in 2009 shortly after moving to Scotland from Australia. Ten years later, I’m looking forward at marking that decade with an NYPBoS concert on February 8 in Edinburgh at the […]